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Jdg_18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
Ver. 24. My gods which I made.] Goodly gods that were made by man, and could not save themselves from being stolen! See Isa_44:9. So the breaden god among the Papists: together with their images, those carpenters’ chips, as Mrs. Cotismore called them. {a}
And what have I more?] The Vulgate hath it, All that I have: that is, all that I make any account of. He reckoned all the rest of his goods as nothing, having lost his gods; and came forth to fight for them, velut pro aris et focis. This superstitious zealot shall rise up in judgment against our lukewarm Laodiceans, our neuter passive professors, that care not what becomes of true religion, - modo ferveat olla, so the pot boil. God hath many such cold friends now-a-days. {1Ki_18:21}
{a} Act. and Mon., 763.